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“She’s exploring the complexity and diversity and richness of languages. There are short chapters on all sorts of things like language ecosystems, all the different sign languages from around the world, all the different whistling and click languages. You get a sense of the amazing chatter of the world. I found it quite powerful.” Read more...
The best books on Endangered Languages
Samantha Ellis, Memoirist
Our most recommended books
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The F-Word
by Jesse Sheidlower -
The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature
by Steven Pinker -
History in English Words
by Owen Barfield -
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
by Simon Winchester -
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
by Stephen King -
Shorter Oxford English Dictionary
by Oxford University Press
